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I am afraid it is not my own website. I just followed that recipe and built it years ago and loved what it achieved sonically.

Had quite some fun building different kinds of cables for live productions - power, speaker, signal, mic, long runs, short runs that must resist interference running along power and other cables. Learning how to mix sound and mic instruments like drums.

With experience from many live performances and behind the sound-desk, it really added a different dimension to my appreciation of music and what hifi means.

It does seem a bit of an oversight given the the overall quality of the design and the flawless fit and finish - the black one I had on demo looked fantastic. As Bluesfan notes at least the display goes off. Display funnies aside, at least it shows all the key parameters clearly without needing to refer to the colour chart in the manual.

Another view of Chord’s Dave DAC.

Wonder why they didn’t do an external power supply, rather than shoe-horn a PSU into DAVE.

Chord have always used switching supplies in their products so have plenty of experience in getting the best out of this type of supply. It’s efficient and small so easily shoe horned into the DAVE chassis. I’m sure somewhere out there some audiophile will have ripped out the standard supply and substituted it for an external linear one…

Having seen @Mike-B’s photo of his Galaxie aerial inside his loft space, I thought I’d post a photo of mine. This is a G-17, suspended on nylon cord in vertical orientation to receive the vertically polarised signal from my nearest BBC transmitter. When this was on the roof in my previous house, a further three elements were added, converting it to a G-20, in an effort to receive the signal from the Wenvoe transmitter. Unfortunately, where I currently live I wouldn’t be allowed to have a G-20 on the roof. Fortunately, however, I can just fit the G-17 in the loft space and still get a strong signal.

And here are the three elements removed to make it fit.

Sorry about the picture quality - there’s not much light up there. Nor space, owing to all the Naim (White) boxes!

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Things were so much simpler then…

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How did you manage to keep the crocodile still long enough to put parts of an old turntable on it ?

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With great difficulty!:sunglasses:

Let’s see how astute you guys are and see if you can recognize what crossover this is inside of.

Looks like a switch to set the tweeter level is sitting between the connection terminals. Large Advent ?

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Ah, that might be Nick Bacon of Wave High Fidelity cables fame. Nick’s DAVE is powered by a Sean Jacobs DC4 linear power supply.

Apparently, Rob Watts wants to hear it but the conversion was done just before the pandemic struck, so has not been able to yet.

This completely invalidates the Chord warranty but is apparently an “astonishing” upgrade. I’d like to hear it one day.

Best regards, BF

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Bonkers ! :grinning:

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Cat sick seems to be a key component :0)

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Ding ding ding!

You got it. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Luxman r1500 receiver with some recap work.
Big and heavy

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Anyone recognise this shutter? Impressively rated at 300,000 actuations and did way more before giving up.

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Nikon??

:+1: Yep, 1/2 way there. :slight_smile:

OK, it is well built, metal rather than plastic, D700?..

(Could check shutter life on the specs…more fun to guess…)